Expanding Our Capacity

We welcomed two new staff members to help us expand our capacity and impact. Aleah Rosario has over ten years experience advancing equity in youth development and nonprofits. As the Director of Programs, Aleah oversees our capacity building work throughout California. Ben Nash joined PCY after serving as a legislative aide in the California State Assembly. As Policy Associate, Ben supports the California Afterschool Advocacy Alliance (CA3) and helps coordinate PCY’s policy, budget, and outreach efforts.

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A Commitment to Racial Justice

To further our own learning and promote racial justice for the children, staff, and families in communities we serve, our staff has been actively participating in facilitated anti-racism learning sessions. A representative from our Board of Directors has joined these sessions to ensure cohesion and alignment.

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Quick Guide: Funding Sources for Expanded Learning Programs

Through CA3, the afterschool advocacy coalition led by PCY, we developed this quick guide to help expanded learning providers navigate the many state and federal funding opportunities.

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Brief: Advancing Student and Staff Health Using COVID Relief Funding

With the California School-Based Health Alliance and support from Kaiser Permanente, we created this brief to summarize the federal COVID relief funds that can be used to support school health and wellness strategies that help students and staff.

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Guide: 2021 Summer Learning

In partnership with the National Summer Learning Association, we created this guide to give districts ideas, resources, and best practices for how to design and implement summer learning programs, with adaptations emerging from the pandemic.

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Webpage: Summer TA Hub

With the help of California Collaboration for Educational Excellence and Sperling Center, we created this Summer Technical Assistance Hub to offer no-cost TA to districts on topics like program design, climate and culture, instructional content, and staffing.

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Toolkit: Engaging High School Students in Summer

We partnered with Linked Learning Alliance to create this innovative toolkit and tipsheet to help schools and districts put their COVID-19 relief dollars to work connecting young people to high-quality college and career learning opportunities.

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Webinar Series: Summer Game Plan

With over 300 registrants, we designed this 6-part webinar series for K-12 administrators, educators, and community partners to help them navigate the biggest challenges in planning summer learning programs.

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TA: Working with Lake County

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Webpage: Learning Hubs Resources

We compiled a list of resources—reports, videos, and news articles—to show how communities across the state and country had opened learning hubs as safe in-person spaces for small groups of students to learn.

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Policy Brief: Learning Hubs

With Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) and American Institutes for Research (AIR), we created this policy brief to explore the learning hub model and raise considerations for local policymakers, schools, and expanded learning partners.

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Factsheet: The Expanded Learning Workforce

We created this factsheet outlining the essential nature of these frontline workers, whose relationships with students are key to student success, as well as policies needed to support them.

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Brief: Role of Expanded Learning in School Reopening

Last year, we collaborated with the Opportunity Institute to create this brief outlining the opportunities to partner with expanded learning programs to better meet the needs of students.

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